Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 3)

SM: Let me ask you a couple of detailed questions on that framework. You have servers inside of various ISPs. The intelligence in that server is your technology and that is how you route traffic. Is that fair to say? TL: At a very high level that is correct. There is a lot of detail

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Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 2)

SM: Even though you had entered the 50K competition, and had started talking to potential customers, Akamai was not a company yet? TL: We really had no desire to make a company out of our research. We were all academics and we liked writing papers, proving theorems, and giving talks. We were not businessmen in

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Speeding Up the Internet: Algorithms Guru and Akamai Founder Tom Leighton (Part 1)

Tom Leighton, co-founder of Akamai, is the Chief Scientist and a member of the Board of Director at Akamai. You can read more about him by visiting his bio here. Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) is the leading content delivery network (CDN) provider which, among other things, allows content providers to accelerate the delivery of Internet

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TeleWebSales: A Methodology Discussion with Anneke Seley (Part 12)

SM: Webex is a very special case. They enabled a lot of the telephone selling by making it possible to demonstrate products over the web. AS: Exactly. Not only do they provide the technology, but they are a showcase for using the technology they provide. It is an incredible machine in terms of process. They

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Online Video Beneficiaries: Synthesis

Online Video is a clear growth market, and many parts of the ecosystem are benefiting as a result. I have done a series called Online Video Beneficiaries, which you can catch up on here: * Online Video Beneficiaries: Introduction * Online Video Beneficiaries: Polycom * Online Video Beneficiaries: Cisco * Online Video Beneficiaries: 3Com?

Venky Harinarayan on Kosmix and Vertical Search (Part 2)

SM: Where did you get the idea for your current venture? What is your domain experience in the segment? VH: We started with the thesis that the Web is like the library of Alexandria – the repository of all human knowledge. The only window people have into this repository today is search. Our vision was

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Venky Harinarayan on Kosmix and Vertical Search (Part 1)

Someone asked me earlier about Kosmix in one of the discussions on this blog, and I had said that I hadn’t looked at the company yet. Well, now I have, and I am happy to bring you a conversation with Venky Harinarayan on the genesis and direction of vertical search startup, Kosmix. SM: Please describe

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TeleWebSales: A Methodology Discussion with Anneke Seley (Part 1)

Anneke Seley is the CEO and founder of Phone Works, which creates teams and processes to help companies maximize their Inside Sales. Telesales, and the combination of Telesales with Websales, is creating a new selling methodology that I have referred to as TeleWebSales. Phone Works is one of top consultants in this space and to

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